Dag0n Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Evening Folks, I like many others am having issues getting my Acer Orbicam to work within Macam. Currently I am running 10.4.8 JAS and 8.8.1 Kernel (i dont want to update, every works and im happy) So the current issue we are facing is upon running it detects the webcam as Logitech Orbicam[ B ] (or [A] depending on what acer it is) then when the play button is pressed it brings an error saying USB Communication problem. I have opened the code within Xcode and the run log states QT call to dummy sgpn:kComponentOpenSelect QT call resulted in 0 QT call to dummy sgpn:kComponentVersionSelect QT call resulted in 10027161 QT call to dummy sgpn:kComponentCloseSelect QT call resulted in 0 QT call to dummy sgpn:kComponentOpenSelect QT call resulted in 0 QT call to dummy sgpn:kComponentRegisterSelect QT call resulted in 0 QT call to dummy sgpn:kComponentCloseSelect QT call resulted in 0 USB Library Version = 2.6.0 USB Family Version = 2.6.1 USB Interface ID = 261 [vc032x_probe_sensor:128] check sensor header 44 [vc0321_config:350] Find Sensor PO3130NC // PLAY IS PRESSED HERE Trying alt 0, return is 0 alt interface 0: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 0 1 Trying alt 1, return is 0 alt interface 1: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 128 1 Trying alt 2, return is 0 alt interface 2: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 512 1 Trying alt 3, return is 0 alt interface 3: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 1024 1 Trying alt 4, return is 0 alt interface 4: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 1536 1 Trying alt 5, return is 0 alt interface 5: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 2048 1 Trying alt 6, return is 0 alt interface 6: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 2688 1 Trying alt 7, return is 0 alt interface 7: pipe 0: ANY 0 CONTROL 64 0 pipe 1: IN 1 INTERRUPT 8 7 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 3072 1 Setting alt to 7, (with packet-size = 3072), return is 0 Checking pipe status, return is 0 Checking pipe properties, return is 0 pipe 2: IN 2 ISOC 3072 1 usbGetIsocFrameSize returning 3072 StartNextIsochRead-ReadIsochPipeAsync: Error: kIOReturnBadArgument - invalid argument I have marked the point where play has been pressed. Any help would be much appreciated. Also I have raised this as an issue on the macam bug tracker here Thanks in advance E: also upon an little investigation this may be related to iousbfamily? however i cannot confirm this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 after investigating in macam i have determined that the maker of the chip an camera is vimicro from here you can download the drivers, however im having troubles editing the plist as expected this doesnt work straight off the pid and vid are in number form and do not know how to check this? any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Ive upgraded to leopard 10.5.1 iaktos to see if i can get this to work. still nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregorykay Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Yeah me too, i also have leopard 10.5.1 iatkos running on an acer aspire 5630 and the webcam driver isnt working for me, I'd love for someone to find a working driver for this that would be awesome thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hi greg, im still looking into this, can you open console, and then run macam press play and see what error pops up in there thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realogic Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 have you tried latest macam? look at sourceforge download page, not the website.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay188 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 I've tried Macam. It doesnt work. It says usb connection problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 i've tested in the latest release and the 5th feb CVS build and had no luck, it seems to be a problem with the bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 You guys check out this: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...=41310&st=0 It says support for orbicam, but has a year and not yet been built in maccam... and worst... link is broken... damn....what now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 The link is back up now. Personally, I think this is a problem with IOUSBFamily given the spotty USB functionality on my laptop otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Well.. I dropped it on /Library/QuickTime .. but nothing happens.... Running just macam gives the USB thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 I did get this working prior with using a differnt Usbfamily kext but it was showing the bottom half as green, but i cant for the life of me remember what one it was, ill have a play later at it also that component unfortunatly doesnt work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 Well.. I dropped it on /Library/QuickTime .. but nothing happens.... Running just macam gives the USB thing... The component is so that the camera is recognized by any quicktime application, so the camera should show up in photobooth, etc. even if it doesn't work with any of the applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 sorry to keep spamming my own thread, but i have tested 4 different IOUSBFAMILY.kext's and i don't seem to be getting the usb communication problem anymore... with macam 0.9.1 i get a scrambled image, but with the latest CVS build i get the attached images. goto http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers...d/usbdebug.html download and install either 235.4.0, 246.4.0, 256.4.2 (for intel). Still have some more to test but i think that the rest is likely to be with macam... ill keep you all updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofxx Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 sorry to keep spamming my own thread, but i have tested 4 different IOUSBFAMILY.kext's and i don't seem to be getting the usb communication problem anymore... with macam 0.9.1 i get a scrambled image, but with the latest CVS build i get the attached images. goto http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers...d/usbdebug.html download and install either 235.4.0, 246.4.0, 256.4.2 (for intel). Still have some more to test but i think that the rest is likely to be with macam... ill keep you all updated. Tnx for the info bro! hope macam fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregorykay Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 ok so when i try macam my green light beside my webcam turns on for a sec then off and says usb connection error. When i then try PIP a program off the apple site for webcams my green light stays on the entire time, maybe PIP has something to it, ive heard of some ppl getting PIP to work with this webcam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abysmal Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Any updates?? Abysmal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag0n Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 nope, i just keep bugging the macam guys about it. i dont know enough or much at all about coding on where to go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micumouse Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 any updates guys? I have an acer 5583 and the orbicam is detected as Logitech Orbicam[ B ]. (same as Dag0n) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00diabolic Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Hi all- Ive read this entire thread Interesting stuff. I have been attacking this issue a completely different way. I also have a different cam but it only has a slightly different issue. Take a look at my thread below. I believe this issue is with the UVC driver in OSX and less to do with the driver for the cam (at least with my system the cam is detected in about this mac). But I have no support in some of the apple apps. Except now I have fixed that partially. I hope to fix it all soon. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=100897 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 after investigating in macam i have determined that the maker of the chip an camera is vimicro from here you can download the drivers, however im having troubles editing the plist as expected this doesnt work straight off the pid and vid are in number form and do not know how to check this? any ideas? Well I seem to have made something resembling progress although with this camera being as buggy as it is I have a feeling it may never work. I downloaded the VM0321 driver off of the above site and installed it. Didn't seem to do anything. I then went in and edited the plist changing idProduct and idVendor from numbers to strings changing them from the vimicro values to the standard info the camera gives in system profiler. <key>idProduct</key> <string>0x0892</string> <key>idVendor</key> <string>0x046d</string> I have noticed other product id's (0x0896 vs 0x0892) perhaps this is difference between Orbicam[A] and Orbicam After making changes, the next time I boot I get this in the console. Jun 15 21:43:38 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: VM0321::probe(Camera) Jun 15 21:43:38 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: VM0321::start(Camera) <1> Jun 15 21:43:39 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: Camera: family specific matching fails Jun 15 21:43:39 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: VM0321::probe(Camera) Jun 15 21:43:39 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: VM0321::start(Camera) <1> Jun 15 21:43:39 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: VM0321::start(Camera) <1> failed Jun 15 21:56:38 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: Camera: family specific matching fails Jun 15 21:57:31 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: Camera: family specific matching fails Jun 15 21:57:36 gojiras-aspire-5670 kernel[0]: Camera: family specific matching fails Seems like the camera is found but refuses to work, I still don't get video in the handful of apps I've tried. I've about stretched the limits of what I can do with this kext. I leave it to others to experiment. p.s. I have noticed that using the 180 swivel to rotate the camera will usually trigger a USB event. Whenever I flip the orbicam around macam crashes immediately (it also crashes randomly as well and still hasn't given me more than a blank screen). Might be useful info for anyone trying to test their camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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